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opobalsamum

opobalsamum · n

the juice of the balsam-tree

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Carmina 1 · 0.45/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
De Medicina 1 · 0.1/10k
Naturalis Historia 4 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

ŏpŏbalsămum — Lewis & Short

ŏpŏbalsămum, i, n., = o)poba/lsamon,

I the juice of the balsam-tree, opobalsam, balsam, balm, Stat. S. 3, 2, 141; Just. 36, 3, 4; Plin. 37, 13, 78, § 204.—Used for embalming bodies, Inscr. Grut. 692, 10.—

II Hence, in gen., perfume: hirsuto spirant opobalsama collo Quae tibi, Juv. 2, 41.

In the wild

opobalsama Juvenal, Saturae 1.2.41
opobalsamo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 1.12.p66
opobalsama Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 2.415
opobalsami Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 3.8.p3
opobalsamo Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.13.p4
opobalsamum Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 9.XIII.p2

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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